MIssing Photos

I don't delete photos.  I have photos of everything - my kids, my friend's kids, my dogs, my friend's dogs, rainbows, blurry rainbows, delicious food, fireworks, and many failed attempts at the full moon.  In many cases, I have duplicates of said photo treasures.  But somehow, I have lost many of the photos from my blog.  The ones I thought were actually important, interesting, and in focus enough to share are gone?  It has something to do with Google+ (I knew it was a bad idea, but got suckered in anyway).  Ok, so the online version is gone, but how in the world are all my multiple copies taking up space on my hard drive also missing?  I'm not happy.

I can't find the photo from March 2009 of a cake we frosted with my Grandmother's fluffy white frosting recipe.  I have other pictures from March 2009 - dogs, the beach, dogs at the beach - but no pics of frosting a cake.

Where have all my photos gone????

On a positive note, in the process of all this searching I did find some videos that my daughter thought were lost. 

The photos on my computer are in such disarray.  I really need to get them organized.  I have 2 Picasa accounts, don't ask why, it doesn't make any sense, even to me. I have countless folders of photos sitting on my hard drive, some labeled, some not, some dated, some not.  It's a mess.  I am feeling the pull to get it all sorted out.  Is this some latent OCD surfacing, or is it just my brain trying to help me avoid doing the taxes this week?